nope, that was not my point, it was solely to point out the inaccuracy in that guy's post stating that there was a higher murder rate ever in the UK than in the States, ever - except maybe in the medieval ages or something 1,000 BC
the possible reasons for it I don't wish to go there, it's the Internets FFS, same reason I don't argue creationism/science here, what do you expect
yeah, i posted again saying it probably wasn't the murder rate, but crimes commited with weapons (knife vs gun), where the UK has a much higher rate than in the US. |
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further digging and i think the stat i had looked at back then, was not murders, but assaults with a deadly weapon (knife and gun specifically). which is possibly the more relevant stat as we are talking about overall safety. this guy is a to angry for my taste, but he breaks it down along the lines of the info i must be recalling: http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=1323relevant bit: In or about 2006, there were about 60 million (actually closer to 58M, but we'll use the rounded-up number to be kind to hopolophobes) people in the UK as a whole, including Scotland.
In England and Wales alone — discounting Scotland — there were over 163 thousand knife crimes.
By the end of 2006, there were more than 300 million people in the US as a whole.
In the US as a whole, there were fewer than 400 thousand gun crimes.
In the UK, based on these numbers, there was one knife crime commited for every 374 people (rounded down).
In the US, based on these numbers, there was one gun crime committed for every 750 people — less than half a gun crime per 374 people (about 0.4987 gun crimes per 374 people, actually).
That means that, based on these statistics, you are more than twice as likely to be a victim of knife crime in the UK as you are to be a victim of gun crime in the US.
and that appears to be discounting scotland, which has a far higher rate of crimes committed with a knife if i recall. |
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i remember i was using nationmaster.com. i think it was just before i got married, so maybe 7-8 years ago, but definitely showed the UK around the same level as the US, with a small decimal place putting it just higher of the two. EDIT: just went back to see if i could dig it up, and the site has changed a bit, and the UK seems to be missing from some relevant stat pages. |
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i'm new here. what was the terry scam, besides bitscalper that is.
He wasn't involved in bitscalper. CoinExchanger was. Terry just sold some shit that ended up getting reversed and didn't send the customers back their money until now. Anything else you hear on the forums is a running gag and inside joke. i know. i read the thread, and was joking along. what was the item? |
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i'm new here. what was the terry scam, besides bitscalper that is.
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maybe dwolla will "find" a hair in their settlement.
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http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoin.pdfBitter to Better -- How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency
Abstract. Bitcoin is a distributed digital currency which has attracted a substantial number of users. We perform an in-depth investigation to understand what made Bitcoin so successful, while decades of research on cryptographic e-cash has not lead to a large-scale deployment. We ask also how Bitcoin could become a good candidate for a long-lived stable currency. In doing so, we identify several issues and attacks of Bitcoin, and propose suitable techniques to address them.
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<tin foil hat on> This Satoshi clan is slick! <tin foil hat off>
satoshi is a master of the long play. my respect has increased a thousand fold. as to looking into who satoshi is, i think its just human nature to be curious about these things. |
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That irreversible click of the mouse is scary. I don't think the general public will ever accept it.
Sam
the general public has no problems dealing in cash transactions. if its a reputible business, there will be a refund policy regardless if payment was made in bitcoin or USD. if the policy is that there will be no refunds, you'll know this going in, and will be able to make a risk reward evaluation for yourself. |
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assuming the notable omission your referring to is bitcoin, it becomes a non-issue once you check the page info and see it was last modified Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:15:34 PM. hell, i clicked 4 links on that page, 2 didn't resolve, 1 was a place holder, and the only one of the 4 still valid was a merchant check clearing site. |
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--edit, next day--
The coins have been recovered.
It turned out the address belonged to both a friend and a gambling service. It is the site BitCoinGamer.com. The site is partly owned by my daughters friend. He is sending my coins back to me as I write.
Let this be a leson to everyone out there as clumsy as me.
consider it a free lesson. glad you got your coins back. |
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Sex.com and porn.com "actual dollar values". Get out, would you? Unless you want to buy a bridge or something.
you don't pay much attention to the news do you? the legal wranglings over the sex.com domain were well covered by traditional media outlets. hell it even had a book written about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex.com#Highest_price_paid_for_domainso about that bridge... |
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Hard is good.
some say also size matters of course size matters, but you could have the biggest pile of cash on the block, if its not hard, its not as useful. |
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wait... someone gave up a $1 million equity stake for a domain name? Doesn't add up now does it. what doesn't add up? here are actual dollar values paid for domains (adjust for inflation if you want to see where bitcoin.com fits in): http://www.domaining.com/topsales/ |
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Excellent, I'll be going through this!  speaking of power supplies, the one for the rigbox is going to have to be a beast huh? |
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Yeah. And the UK has no gun crime because of it... oh wait... it's gone UP since the ban.
In my home country (not UK) less than 4% of the population owns a gun and I actually feel safer than I ever would/did in the USA... And guess what, criminals around here typically also don't carry guns! Just to be clear here, I've been to the military as well and loved to handle guns there - still I would only in very rare circumstances ever consider of buying a gun myself. its a false sense of security (last i checked which was a few years ago). per capita, the UK has just slight HIGHER rates of murder. dead is dead. doesn't matter if its a gun or a knife that does it to you. i own a gun. i view it as an insurance policy. i hope i never need it, but i'll be glad i have it if god forbid i ever do. |
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i fit the bill, and am interested in learning more of your proposal.
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